Walid Saddam is a visual artist and musician based in Bangladesh. His work and music explores themes such as environmental injustice, social injustice, human fragility, displacement and the blurred boundaries between reality and imagination. As a storyteller, Walid thrives on blending poetic realism with speculative elements, often focusing on characters who navigate the margins of society. His visual style is marked by atmospheric composition, textured environments, and emotionally raw performances.
Walid Saddam
Bangladesh
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Walid’s recent body of work turns attention toward the imbalance between the natural and the manufactured. At its conceptual core lies the duality of carbon dioxide — one born from the earth’s natural respiration, the other produced by human industry and excess. The work examines how the latter, generated through fossil fuels, deforestation, plastics, and fast fashion, has come to saturate both atmosphere and consciousness. In doing so, it reflects on how comfort and consumption have quietly altered the planet’s equilibrium, implicating every gesture of human life in cycles of creation and destruction. Or, in easier terms, this work’s narrative questions how we participate, consciously or unconsciously, in this slow violence—how we breathe, wear, and live through both forms of CO₂.
“Humans clothe their bodies to hide their fragility; trees wear nothing, and so we cut them down. Yet it is the naked trees that breathe for us.”
This observation becomes the poetic core of his practice—a meditation on humanity’s estrangement from the natural order, our need to consume beauty and luxury-driven disconnection from the very systems that sustain us.
Walid’s works do not seek to accuse but to awaken. Through atmospheric composition and symbolic imagery, he invites reflection on how individual choices echo within collective ecological realities. What emerges is not merely a portrait of crisis but an invitation — to rethink coexistence, to imagine tenderness within consumption, and to recognize the fragile continuity between human breath and the world that holds it.